Headstart X - Paying it Forward

Headstart X is the 10th anniversary edition of #StartupSaturday by Headstart.

Our commitment at Headstart X is to ensure that you go back with substantial value.

Each of our speakers* will stay back to mentor you in addressing problems you are stuck with. Some of our speakers will take closed-door sessions and share internal information on how they built their business.

*Note: Different mentors/sessions have different qualifying criteria. We will set you up with a relevant mentor.

Whether you are an existing or aspiring entrepreneur, there is a LOT to learn. We have carefully curated our sessions to ensure there are actionable insights inside each of our talks, workshops and panel discussions.

For queries, write to events@headstart.in

Agenda

09:15 AM

Enterprise Startup Collaboration & Welcome NoteSpeakers:Dilipkumar Khandelwal, MD - SAP Labs India & President - SAP Hana CLOUD enterpriseIn addition to a warm welcome to all of you, Dilip shares the great work SAP and SAP Startup Studio have been doing, their association with Headstart and his vision for startups and enterprises collaborating to make India a #StartupNation

09:30 AM

The making of redBusSpeakers:Phanindra Sama, Ex Co-founder & CEO - redBusPhani shares the behind the scenes stories of what it took to build the huge business that redBus became. Right from it's inception to its exit.

10:00 AM

Panel: The Art of NetworkingSpeakers:Panel:
Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO - YourStory
Vishwas Mudgal, CEO - GoodWorkLabsEveryone does networking but what does it really take to build a network that works for you. Shradha and Vishwas share values and best practices for being an effective networker.

10:30 AM

From a 1 man team to World #1 - The story of Fusion ChartsSpeakers:Pallav Nadhani, Founder & CEO - Fusion ChartsPallav started Fusion Charts as a 17 year old trying to make some pocket money. He shares his story of taking FusionCharts from a one man show to the world's top company in its space without raising a dollar in investment.

11:10 AM

Builiding a Wow Product

Speakers:Ajith Mohan Karimpana, Founder & CEO - FurlencoGreat products sell themselves. But what does it take to build a great product? Ajith walks you through the discipline of building great products.

11:40 AM

Building the world's 2nd largest Content Marketing Platform

Speakers:Vinay Singhal, Co-founder & CEO - WittyFeedVinay takes you behind the scenes of WittyFeed's journey, evolving from a Facebook page to a global network raking in millions in revenue.

12:10 PM

Getting acquired by FacebookSpeakers:Kumar Rangarajan, Co-founder - Slang LabsThe story of Little Eye Labs. Get a glimpse of how an acquisition from Facebook looks and feels like. Also learn what makes him excited about the vernacular tech scene in India.

12:50 PM

Panel: Leveraging Media and PRSpeakers:Panel:
Shradha Sharma, CEO - YourStory
Ravi Shankar, CEO - Aim High Consulting
Vinay Singhal, CEO - WittyFeed
Vaitheeswaran K, Ex CEO - India PlazaHow to get my startup covered by media? How to talk to a VC without talking to a VC via media? How to make your brand known via social media? And more...
With their diverse backgrounds into media, PR and a rich understanding of startups Shradha, Vinay, Ravi and Vaithee dive deep into what clicks and what doesn't in the world of media. Learn what to do, and also what not to.

01:30 PM

Lunch Break

02:30 PM

Kickstart Finalists Pitches The pitches of the top 5 startups in Kickstart National Finals, the pitching initiative of Headstart.

03:00 PM

Panel: Selling your startupSpeakers:Panel:
Sanjay Swamy, Ex CEO - mChek, Ex Chairman - ZipDial
Sumit Jain, Ex CEO - CommonFloorHaving built and sold two multi million dollar startups, Sanjay has seen it all. He shares from his learnings of selling mChek and ZipDial while Sumit shares his journey from building and selling CommonFloor. Parag adds his perspectives from a VC's standpoint.

03:40 PM

Panel: Sales and GrowthSpeakers:Panel:
Ravi Trivedi, Founder - PushEngage
Nithin Kamath, Founder & CEO - Zerodha Sales is a discipline, and growth is not accidental. Learn how Coupon Rani, Pushengage and Zerodha grew from scratch. Ravi and Nithin do a deep dive into scaling their startups.

04:20 PM

With domestic consumption being over 50% of GDP, Indian entrepreneurs are increasingly looking inwards to create products and services for India's middle class. Sharad and Sanjay discuss and explore what's in store for people #BuildingForBharat

05:00 PM

Running your startup on customer moneySpeakers:Avlesh Singh, Co-founder - WebEngageCustomer money is the most efficient and sustainable way of building a business. Avlesh takes you through his journey from really struggling to get the first sale to building a business where there is an abundance of sales and no more requires venture capital.

Sharad’s personal mantra is to lead big and small companies through orbit change. He is one of the active technology angel investors in India with about two dozen investments. He is a passionate evangelist of the software product ecosystem in India. He is the co-founder and Governing Council member of iSPIRT. He was the Chair of NASSCOM Product Forum and a member of the Executive Council from 2009-13. He is also an entrepreneur. He co-founded Teltier, now part of Cisco, and is currently the CEO of BrandSigma Inc.

Phanindra Sama is the Founder and CEO of RedBus, India’s First Online Bus Ticket Booking Service. Started in 2005 , today Redbus is the largest online bus ticketing company in India.
Phanindra recieved his Electrical Engineering degree from BITS Pilani and Post- Graduation from Indian Institute of Science. Prior to Redbus, he worked at ST Electronics and Texas Instruments. He hails from Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Shradha Sharma is the Founder and Chief Editor of YourStory. Shradha lives her life in stories. And believes, every story is unique and every story matters. Prior to founding YourStory Shradha worked with Times of India and CNBC TV18. In 2015, she was selected in the list of 500 LinkedIn Influencers across the world. Also in 2015 (March) Sharma received the L’Oreal Paris Femina Award for Online Influence.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal

Speaker

President, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud at SAP

Dilipkumar Khandelwal has a dual responsibility: he is the President of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and the Managing Director of SAP Labs India. Dilip is a member of the SAP Global Executive Team reporting into the Executive Board. He has been recognized by the Economic Times as a ‘Young Leader under 40’.

Sumit is responsible for company strategy and business. His result-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. As a party lover he has successfully incorporated several fun elements into the company's work culture. Prior to his present role, Sumit worked with Oracle India. Sumit holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee.

Ajith's passion for rental furniture has never wavered, neither in the first 4 years of business pre-funding, nor in the successful years after. His passion and vision ‘never own furniture’ has inspired Furlenco to take on this mantle and create brave new evangelists of the new economy.

Pallav is the co-founder and CEO of FusionCharts. He started FusionCharts at the age of 17 without any external funding. Today, FusionCharts has over 27,000 customers and 700,000 developers. His entrepreneurial journey has been covered by various magazines like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Today, Economic Times and numerous blogs & websites.
Pallav holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has co-authored a book on combining the power of Flash and .NET called 'Flash.NET' in 2002 and has written several technical articles for international journals ever since.

Vaitheeswaran K

Speaker

Author - Failing to Succeed, The Story of India's first e-commerce company

Ravi is a digital marketer and an entrepreneur with hands-on experience in running E-commerce and Lead Gen companies in US and India. He is also an investor who is trying to better himself at it by building startups from scratch and work with the startups in early stage.

Sanjay is a passionate marketing executive with strong desire to mentor and lead entrepreneurs in developing disruptive technologies and business models - and introducing these in emerging markets. His areas of specialization range from Mobile Content, Mobile Commerce, Billing and CRM and eProcurement.

Vishwas Mudagal dons many hats; he is a successful serial entrepreneur, a professional CEO, a #1 best-selling author, an angel investor and motivation speaker. Mudagal co-founded GoodWorkLabs, which has become a multi-million-dollar company growing at 500% year-on-year. It was awarded the 5th fastest growing company by Deloitte Fast 50 2016. He received the 'Star Entrepreneur Award'? from Indira India Innovation Summit 2011 in recognition of his contribution to entrepreneurship and innovation. He was named in the Top 11 personalities of Bangalore by Deccan Chronicle in 2014.

Vinay is the Co-Founder and CEO of WittyFeed and has contributed greatly to the success of the company. Vinay along with his partners established this site for those who love to read real time and imaginary stories, which are left unnoticed or left untouched by the main stream media. It is a trending site that is making its way to go viral in the world of social media.

Ravi is the CEO of Aim High Consulting. In a career spanning more than 17 years, Ravi has steered several leading Indian brands to success. Ravi has a deep passion for teaching and writing. He is a guest lecturer at leading Management and Communication institutions. He is also active on the public speaking circuit, especially in the areas of communication, entrepreneurship, new age businesses, and PR for start-ups in India. Evangelising the importance of PR for new-age and technology-enabled businesses, he lectures at reputed conferences / seminars, entrepreneurial cells and incubators / accelerators / start-up associations, on varied subjects that touch start-ups in India.

Nithin bootstrapped and founded Zerodha in 2010 to overcome the hurdles he faced during his decade long stint as a trader. Today, Zerodha has changed the landscape of the Indian broking industry. He was named one of the “Top 10 Businessmen to Watch Out for in 2016 in India” by The Economic Times for pioneering and scaling discount broking in India.

Jitendra founded SQUATS with a vision to reach out to 50 million people and make them fit, to teach them how easy it is to stay fit, to create jobs in fitness industry, take people along and move together as a Wolfpack.

Aditya is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore. He has worked at TCS for 10 years handling various portfolios across investments, strategy, business development and sales. He is also one of the co-founders of Headstart Network Foundation; India’s largest community of early stage entrepreneurs.

Monika has more than 15 years of experience in hospitality and real estate industry. She is passionate about brand building, sales and in delivering high-quality service to customers.
Prior to iKeva, Monika was a part of senior management team at Servcorp, a premium Serviced Office provider and was an integral part of setting up and growing their business unit in India. She has also held senior management positions in boutique hotel chains, and has set-up small hospitality units in major metro cities across India.

Vaibhav is a UX & Service designer turned entrepreneur, with a penchant for strategy design and Business model innovation. He is passionate about application of design thinking in businesses and propagation of creative entrepreneurship.
He has extensive experience in the fields of product design, UI, UX and service design.

Naveen Asrani is the Director – Startups at Microsoft Corporation India. He is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience in building eco-systems, categories and products both Regionally in the Asia Pacific Region and in Global markets. In his current role, he works closely with startups, mentoring and accelerating them as they realize their aspirations. Naveen is passionate about ideas, products and businesses.Prior to joining Microsoft, he was with Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Kunal is an entrepreneur, engineer and a product guy. He built MoneyTap, India's first app-based credit line for consumers. After exiting from Tapstart.com, Kunal has explored everything from product development, engineering, growth hacking and inbound marketing to sales, business development and fund raising.

Girish Rowjee is a co-founder of Greytip Software and is the guiding beacon behind Greytip being the #1 HR & Payroll solutions provider in the country today. One of the early movers in the SaaS B2B space in India,

Girish has been instrumental in positioning Greytip as a market leader in the Online Payroll space. Girish has done his Engineering from SJCE Mysore. He is one of founding members of iSPIRT and is a Mentor at the Founders' Institute India.

Arjun specializes in Mergers & Acquisition, General Corporate Commercial and Dispute Resolution. He has extensive experience in M&A related transactions including all manners of structuring and scheme of arrangements; drafting contracts for web applications, e-commerce, hospital management, etc.; dispute resolution through arbitration & mediation; corporate litigation in relation to oppression & mismanagement and liquidation. He has appeared and argued before various judicial forums in the writ, original and appellate jurisdictions.

Pramod is one of the Co-founders and the chief technology officer of LoadShare Networks Pvt. Ltd. Loadshare was founded in 2017 and is one of India’s fastest growing logistics companies with a comprehensive express and logistics network covering more than 2000 pin codes across North East & East India , Metros, all 4 South Indian states, Rajasthan, UP & many more destinations in the pipeline.

Brent has a broad base of experience across finance, investing, and social enterprise, and his passion for seeing entrepreneurs reach their potential with social innovations for the masses.
Prior to joining Unitus, Brent advised US companies on acquisitions and strategic investments, and was part of the healthcare investment banking team at Nexus Health Capital.

Miten is client facing strategic Technology leader equipped with powerful communication, coordination and analytic skills, along with a proven track record of exceptional leadership ability. He enjoys being part of, as well as leading, a successful and productive teams. Miten is quick to grasp new ideas and concepts and is diligent in developing innovative and creative solutions to problems. He has a unique energy, creativity, drive and a talent to work at both at a micro and macro level. Miten is highly organized but flexible individual who is seen as trusted advisor with demonstrated solid judgment, who develops strong client relationships at all levels internally and externally.

Rahul works with organizations to fuel growth in them through a large and meaningful network of brilliant people who support in different roles from being clients, investors, mentors or supporters in some way. He believes in creating a win-win situation for all and grow organizations & people around, hence he likes interacting with various people and keep expanding networks and supporting everyone around to build an ecosystem where everyone is of help to each other.

Archana is Venture Partner at Unicorn India Ventures. She heads Unicorn’s Bangalore operations and engages with portfolio entrepreneurs for performance monitoring, capital raising, and strategic decision making. Archana has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, where she has worked in leadership roles in various consulting companies and banks.

Nah was consistently in charge of start-ups in the IT/Internet sector at the Tokyo and NY headquarters of Nomura Securities Group. He has lead many companies to IPO. He moved to India in 2014 and experienced starting a start-up on site.

Sameer has been recognized as one of Asia-Pacific's most promising young social entrepreneurs by the Paragon100 Fellowship. His passion is inclusive technology, something he discovered during his internship with Ujjivan, one of the fastest growing microfinance institutions in the world.

Sukriti is an enthusiast learner and a self motivated professional with strong process knowledge and apt skills to blend with new change in the business. She is appreciated for quick response, trust and personal responsibility in adding value to the client business. She manages the Bangalore and Hyderabad chapters in Lead Angels.

Krishna is the executive assistant to the CEO at GoFrugal. GoFrugal is a Digital first, Product first company. It was formed in 2004, with the sole purpose of empowering traders, merchants & business into higher levels of efficiency & profitability.

Pradeep Kumar heads Ecosystem and Outreach for PayPal India. He also oversees the strategy and operations of PayPal Incubator. Prior to PayPal, Pradeep was working for a multi-million dollar incubator fund focusing on multi-sector early stage startups. He is the author of three best-selling non-fiction books in Tamil and co-founded a startup to sell Tamil e-Books. He has a passion for teaching and has delivered training programs to corporates and campuses covering more than 10,000 students.